SENATE FLOOR ACTION
Tuesday
May 27, 2003
THE SENATE SUSPENDED ALL NECESSARY RULES TO CONSIDER AND FINALLY PASS:
HJR 16 Brown, Fred/ Brown, Betty/ Gattis/ Chavez/
Baxter /et al. SP: Nelson
Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize a county, a city
or town, or a junior college district to establish an ad valorem
tax freeze on residence homesteads of the disabled and of the
elderly and their spouses.
HJR 21 Hamric/ Wohlgemuth/ Menendez
SP: Van de Putte
Proposing a constitutional amendment to prohibit an increase in the
total amount of school district ad valorem taxes that may be
imposed on the residence homestead of a disabled person.
1 FLOOR AMENDMENT
HJR 51 Flores SP: Staples
Proposing a constitutional amendment to establish a two-year period
for the redemption of a mineral interest sold for unpaid ad valorem
taxes at a tax sale.
1 FLOOR AMENDMENT
HJR 85 Homer/et al. SP: Estes
Proposing a constitutional amendment to allow wineries in this
state to manufacture, sell, and dispense certain wine.
1 FLOOR AMENDMENT
HB 7 Heflin SP: Bivins
Relating to making supplemental appropriations and making
reductions in current appropriations.
HB 28 Hodge SP: Whitmire
Relating to rehabilitation programs for defendants housed in state
jail felony facilities.
HB 111 Chavez/ Wohlgemuth SP: Zaffirini
Relating to responsibility for payment for transport by ambulance
of a recipient of medical assistance in certain circumstances.
HB 217 Hamric/ Wohlgemuth/ Menendez/ Bohac/et al.
SP: Van de Putte
Relating to limiting the amount of school district ad valorem taxes
that may be imposed on the residence homestead of a disabled
person.
1 FLOOR AMENDMENT
HB 264 Brown, Fred SP: Hinojosa
Relating to supplemental contributions to the optional retirement
program by institutions of higher education.
HB 622 Goolsby SP: Deuell
Relating to business leave time accounts for police officer
employee organizations in certain municipalities.
HB 730 Ritter/ Edwards/ King/ Woolley/ Seaman/et al.
SP: Fraser
Relating to residential construction, including certain warranties,
building and performance standards, and dispute resolution;
providing an administrative penalty.
9 FLOOR AMENDMENTS
HB 826 Davis, Yvonne SP: Carona
Relating to the disposition of certain unclaimed wage payments.
1 FLOOR AMENDMENT
HB 833 Hochberg/et al. SP: Janek
Relating to certain pharmaceutical services for an injured employee
receiving workers' compensation medical benefits.
2 FLOOR AMENDMENTS
HB 867 Jones, Jesse/ Naishtat SP: Deuell
Relating to minimum standards applicable to certain facilities.
1 FLOOR AMENDMENT
HB 1125 Flores SP: Staples
Relating to the period for the redemption of a mineral interest
sold for unpaid ad valorem taxes at a tax sale.
HB 1131 Flores/ Marchant/ Driver/ Ritter/ Hardcastle/
et al. SP: Carona
Relating to insurer interests in certain motor vehicle repair
facilities; providing a civil penalty.
1 FLOOR AMENDMENT
HB 1218 Chisum/ Gallego/ Solomons/ Dunnam/
Martinez Fischer SP: Nelson
Relating to the continuation and functions of the Texas State Board
of Public Accountancy; providing penalties.
HB 1457 Eiland/et al. SP: Janek
Relating to the applicability and enforcement of the law governing
access to public beaches.
HB 1499 Dukes SP: Barrientos
Relating to the view of the state capitol.
HB 1541 Callegari SP: Lindsay
Relating to the general powers and authority of water districts.
5 FLOOR AMENDMENTS
HB 1839 Solomons/ Lewis/et al. SP: Armbrister
Relating to property in the custody of a pawnbroker; providing
criminal penalties.
HB 1887 Morrison/ Chavez/ Mercer SP: Ratliff
Relating to funds received by institutions of higher education to
cover overhead expenses of conducting research.
1 FLOOR AMENDMENT
HB 1931 Capelo/ West, George "Buddy"/ Jones, Elizabeth/
Canales / Chisum SP: Williams
Relating to pipeline safety emergency response plans and the
requirements governing notification of pipeline construction and
operation.
1 FLOOR AMENDMENT
HB 2004 Marchant/et al. SP: Van de Putte
Relating to allowing a commissioners court to deliberate in a
closed meeting regarding business and financial considerations of a
contract being negotiated.
1 FLOOR AMENDMENT
HB 2044 McReynolds SP: Staples
Relating to the powers and duties of the General Land Office and
the accounting and disposition of state-owned real property.
1 FLOOR AMENDMENT
HB 2075 Hilderbran SP: Fraser
Relating to regulating health and safety conditions at youth camps.
HB 2081 McReynolds SP: Ratliff
Relating to an exemption from The Texas Engineering Practice Act
for certain public works.
1 FLOOR AMENDMENT
HB 2261 West, George "Buddy" SP: Bivins
Relating to the Eighth, Ninth, and Eleventh courts of appeals
districts.
HB 2359 Ritter SP: Armbrister
Relating to the programs and systems administered by the Employees
Retirement System of Texas.
2 FLOOR AMENDMENTS
HB 2425 McCall SP: Duncan
Relating to state and certain local fiscal matters; making an
appropriation.
12 FLOOR AMENDMENTS
HB 2458 Krusee/ Oliveira/ Swinford/et al.
SP: Bivins
Relating to the collection of the motor fuel taxes; providing
penalties.
2 FLOOR AMENDMENTS
HB 2554 Smith, Wayne/ Eiland/et al.
SP: Williams
Relating to the application of new requirements for commercial
nonhazardous industrial solid waste landfill facilities to be
adopted by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
HB 2593 Homer SP: Estes
Relating to winery permits.
2 FLOOR AMENDMENTS
HB 2877 Bonnen/ Homer/ Chisum/ Stick
SP: Armbrister
Relating to certain permitting procedures of the Texas Commission
on Environmental Quality.
7 FLOOR AMENDMENTS
HB 2892 Allen SP: Whitmire
Relating to the illegal use of money or property derived from or
intended to further certain controlled substance offenses;
providing penalties.
1 FLOOR AMENDMENT
HB 3015 Morrison/ Brown, Fred SP: Shapiro
Relating to the tuition and fees charged to students of
institutions of higher education, to financial assistance funded by
tuition, and to accountability reports by institutions of higher
education.
6 FLOOR AMENDMENTS
HB 3139 Wilson SP: Lucio
Relating to delivery sales of cigarettes; providing penalties.
HB 3208 Heflin SP: Averitt
Relating to the temporary provision of lump-sum payments to certain
retiring members of the Employees Retirement System of Texas.
HB 3306 Berman SP: Duncan
Relating to certain appropriations made in support of the courts by
the legislature to certain individuals and governmental entities,
to the assignment of certain visiting judges, and to the Eighth,
Ninth, and Eleventh courts of appeals districts.
1 FLOOR AMENDMENT
HB 3330 Crownover SP: Estes
Relating to regulation of certain information logo signs along
certain major highways.
HB 3459 Pitts/ McCall SP: Bivins
Relating to fiscal matters involving certain governmental
educational entities, including public school finance, program
compliance monitoring by the Texas Education Agency, amounts
withheld from compensatory education allotments, the public school
technology allotment, the composition of and accounting for the
permanent school fund and the available school fund, health
insurance coverage provided by certain educational entities, and
the uses of the telecommunications infrastructure fund.
9 FLOOR AMENDMENTS
HB 3569 Hopson SP: Ratliff
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Rusk County Groundwater
Conservation District.
THE SENATE SUSPENDED THE REGULAR ORDER, READ THIRD TIME, AND PASSED:
HB 1296 Noriega SP: Lindsay
Relating to small business development programs of navigation
districts and port authorities.
1 FLOOR AMENDMENT
THE SENATE SUSPENDED THE REGULAR ORDER, READ SECOND TIME, AND PASSED
TO THIRD READING:
HB 2292 (CS) Wohlgemuth/ Heflin SP: Nelson
Relating to the provision of health and human services in this
state, including the powers and duties of the Health and Human
Services Commission and other state agencies; providing penalties.
3 FLOOR AMENDMENTS
HB 3588 (CS) Krusee/ Delisi/ Capelo/ Turner/ Phillips
SP: Ogden
Relating to the construction, acquisition, financing, maintenance,
management, operation, ownership, and control of transportation
facilities and the progress, improvement, policing, and safety of
transportation in the state; imposing criminal penalties.
12 FLOOR AMENDMENTS
THE SENATE REFUSED TO SUSPEND THE REGULAR ORDER TO CONSIDER:
HB 1204 (CS)(LC) Baxter SP: Wentworth
Relating to the authority of municipalities and counties to
regulate subdivisions and certain development in a municipality's
extraterritorial jurisdiction.
THE SENATE ADOPTED THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTIONS:
HCR 251 Smithee SP: Bivins
In memory of U.S. Air Force Captain Eric Bruce Das of Amarillo.
HCR 261 Corte
Commemorating Memorial Day 2003.
THE SENATE CONCURRED IN HOUSE AMENDMENTS TO THE FOLLOWING:
SJR 45 Madla SP: Lewis
Proposing a constitutional amendment to repeal the authority of the
legislature to provide for the creation of rural fire prevention
districts.
SB 155 Zaffirini/et al. SP: Puente/et al.
Relating to the protection of public freshwater areas; providing a
penalty.
SB 253 Staples SP: Pitts
Relating to the applicability of the Texas Youth Camp Safety and
Health Act to facilities or programs operated by or on the campus
of an institution of higher education.
SB 282 Jackson SP: Bailey/et al.
Relating to the continuation and functions of the Texas State Board
of Plumbing Examiners; providing penalties.
SB 533 Carona SP: Elkins
Relating to certain practices of debt collectors and credit
bureaus.
SB 716 Lindsay SP: Eiland
Relating to causeways, bridges, tunnels, turnpikes, and highways in
certain counties bordering the Gulf of Mexico and in adjacent
counties.
SB 1326 Carona SP: Jones, Jesse/et al.
Relating to the municipal regulation of single-family and duplex
industrialized housing.
SB 1439 Shapleigh SP: Corte
Relating to federal matching funds for certain projects at military
facilities in this state.
SB 1565 Madla SP: Uresti
Relating to allowing a municipality to create a defense adjustment
management authority; authorizing taxes and bonds.
SB 1574 Carona SP: Giddings
Relating to the administration and regulation of the state's
workers' compensation insurance system.
THE SENATE REFUSED TO CONCUR IN HOUSE AMENDMENTS AND REQUESTED
THE APPOINTMENT OF A CONFERENCE COMMITTEE ON THE FOLLOWING:
SB 14 Jackson/et al. SP: Smithee/et al.
Relating to the regulation of residential property and commercial
and personal automobile insurance; providing a criminal penalty.